Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem. - Kenneth Rexroth
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
- Kenneth Rexroth
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation. - Kenneth Rexroth
Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.
Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing i… - Kenneth Rexroth
Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing i…
Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and… - Kenneth Rexroth
Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and…
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. - Kenneth Rexroth
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enoug… - Kenneth Rexroth
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enoug…
We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have s… - Kenneth Rexroth
We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have s…
There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to … - Kenneth Rexroth
There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to …
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudenc… - Kenneth Rexroth
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudenc…
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